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<FONT color="green">001</FONT>    package org.codemonkey.util;<a name="line.1"></a>
<FONT color="green">002</FONT>    <a name="line.2"></a>
<FONT color="green">003</FONT>    /**<a name="line.3"></a>
<FONT color="green">004</FONT>     * Interface for marking objects encodable as datagram. An encoded strings is a string that contains a number that denotes the length of a<a name="line.4"></a>
<FONT color="green">005</FONT>     * value followed by the value itself.<a name="line.5"></a>
<FONT color="green">006</FONT>     * <a name="line.6"></a>
<FONT color="green">007</FONT>     * @author Benny Bottema<a name="line.7"></a>
<FONT color="green">008</FONT>     * @since 1.0<a name="line.8"></a>
<FONT color="green">009</FONT>     */<a name="line.9"></a>
<FONT color="green">010</FONT>    public interface DatagramEncoder {<a name="line.10"></a>
<FONT color="green">011</FONT>    <a name="line.11"></a>
<FONT color="green">012</FONT>            /**<a name="line.12"></a>
<FONT color="green">013</FONT>             * Creates a response string (binary packet) of the current server response. It does not know the response code, which is assigned<a name="line.13"></a>
<FONT color="green">014</FONT>             * externally and prepended to the response string created by this method.<a name="line.14"></a>
<FONT color="green">015</FONT>             * <a name="line.15"></a>
<FONT color="green">016</FONT>             * @return The response &lt;code&gt;String&lt;/code&gt; or binary packet, without the response code.<a name="line.16"></a>
<FONT color="green">017</FONT>             */<a name="line.17"></a>
<FONT color="green">018</FONT>            String encode();<a name="line.18"></a>
<FONT color="green">019</FONT>    }<a name="line.19"></a>




























































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